Anthony, I've seen the other replies but I wonder if I may see your question differently.
Are you asking how to make it so that all the windows opened by one app SHOULD share the one session? That is how things would work if you use CF's traditional session mgt feature. If, instead, you use the CF Admin setting to "use J2EE sessions" (on the "memory variables" page), then things become quite different (especially in IE). When you use the J2EE sessions option (which if enabled are server-wide for all apps and can't be overridden), CF changes to using a temporary cookie (jsessionid) which is stored only in the memory of the browser, whereas with traditional CF sessions, CF uses "more permanent" cookies (cfid and cftoken) which are stored on disk by the browser. The impact of this choice is that, if you use J2EE sessions, then in IE, the question of whether a new window/tab will share the session of a previous window/tab depends, because IE works differently depending on how you open it. If you open a new tab, it will share the same session. If you use File>New Window or Ctrl-N, that will open a new window that shares the session. If you start a new instance of IE from the OS (like Start>Programs>Internet Explorer, or by clicking the icon in the task bar launcher), that will instead create a new IE process. You'll literally see a new iexplore.exe in task manager. That will NOT share the sessions (if J2EE sessions are enabled) because the temporary cookie is per-process. With Firefox and other browsers, they always seem to create a new window in the same process, regardless, so it's an issue only with IE. Of course, this also addresses the notion of whether "closing the browser closes the session". With J2EE sessions, then, with IE, it depends the same way on how the window was open. I'll note that this isn't new stuff, but it's not well known (in my observation). I blogged about it (with more detail) back in 2002, when the J2EE sessions feature was added in CF 6: http://cfmxplus.blogspot.com/2002/06/j2ee-session-variables-i-mentioned-in.html I've thought about reposting some of those old classics. Most these days have probably never even seen that old blog of mine (though I do of course link to it from my new one). Hope that's helpful (and along the lines of where your question was going, Anthony). /charlie From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Landers Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:37 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Session Variables with multiple sessions Hi, I have an inhouse billing application that I now support and are wanting to make some modifications to. I am wanting end users to be able to open up multiple copies of our cf web application in different IE windows. This is so they can be looking at a persons invoice in a session of Internet Explorer and then receive a help desk call and proceed to look at a different persons invoice in a second session of Internet Explorer. The application uses session variables to hold ID's etc so if the end user then went back to their first Internet Explorer session it is possible that if they clicked onto a button to show the persons details, they would get the details from the 2nd Internet Explorer session (help desk call) as the session variables would have changed. So, my question is, can you have separate session variables per Internet Explorer window (not tab)? Is there a better way to manage having the application open multiple times on the one PC? Hope this makes sense. Cheers Anthony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
